Seattle Day 5

Day five, our last full day in Seattle, promised to be an eclectic one at the very least. It was both the day of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Seattle and Pie Day, and the day that Andrew and I were going to explore Fremont and go to the WWE show.

We had breakfast at Cafe Campagne, which was a restraurant I had been wanting to go to, because it was the place where my mom and I had brunch when we visited Seattle when I was 16. They have a killer brioche french toast and an awesome morning mimosa.

Andrew ordered a poached egg on brioche toast in a sort of wine reduction, also delicious.

We couldn't help but take another walk through the market to look at vendors and flowers.

Then we took a bus to Fremont to see the Fremont troll... and lo and behold, we discovered a funk band called Eldridge Gravy and the Court Supreme filming their music video.

Which Andrew and I were able to be a part of! Apparently their music video will be coming out on their website sometime soon, and we're in the background doing terribly coordinated dance moves.

This is the bus the band travels in.

A few streets over we found the hotly debated Lenin statue.

And we also found a little hand pie shop while we were wandering around. 3.14 indeed!

The shop was packed with a long line down the street.

Delicious pies!

The delicious pies we ate! Strawberry rhubarb and blueberry.

As you can see here.

After Fremont we returned back to the Seattle Center to visit the Chihuly museum.

We opted not to go up the Space Needle, but did stand beneath it!

On our way back to the hotel we walked back to the Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company and I tried their sipping caramel, which did indeed taste just like liquified Werther's (and was delicious).

Amanda was amazing and send a gift certificate to Tom Douglas restaurants to me at the hotel for my birthday! Which meant we could go back to Serious Pie for dinner! YES.

We also picked up some macarons at The Yellow Leaf, because they looked too good.

We hooked a bus BACK to the Seattle Center area again and walked over to Serious Pie and Biscuits.

Amazing charcuterie!

We also enjoyed amazing pizza, but the best thing we had that evening was the famous Tom Douglas Triple Coconut Creme Pie. Apparently you can order a coconut creme pie at any of his restaurants at any time, and if they don't have it they will walk or drive it over from one of his other restaurants. And you know what? One of the best pies I've had, and I don't typically care for coconut creme.

That's right, WWE at the Key Center.

So excite.

A family of Hulk Hogans.

Tyler Breeze is a WWE character who takes selfies of himself, who Andrew and I had stumbled across on the internet before and laughed about... and he just so happened to to be at this how too!

Lucha Dragons were one of the very best parts.

This little girl, maybe 10 years old, was VERY into the show.

Headed out, lots of excited fans.

Seattle Day Four

Our original plan for Friday was to rent a car and drive to Snoqualmie Falls, but our plan of driving somewhere outside of the city was pretty poorly constructed and we realized we could probably do something more interesting with our time. So our alternate plan went into effect: Find a breakfast of crumpets, hop a ferry to Bainbridge Island, explore downtown until we were exhausted, take a nap, find a great dinner.

On our way through Pike's Place to get to the ferry.

On our way through, we got crumpets at The Crumpet Shop. I am far from a crumpet expert, but they were delicious and they made a mean in-house lemon curd.

View of Seattle from the ferry heading out to Bainbridge.

Of course the first thing we do is find crepes. Nutella and powdered sugar, yum!

View down Bainbridge's main street.

Found ourselves a wine tasting at the Eleven Winery tasting room.

We tried five different wines, all delicious!

Believe it or not, Bainbridge ALSO has an art museum. It was very tiny, but had a room of 'miniature and unusual books', and this was a book that was a small shelf of holding 'bottled cloud types'.

There was a small path around the marina that we walked along, where we also met a gem of a couple (the woman we are pretty sure was a mail-order-bride...because the husband said so).

Lunch at Hitchcock Delicatessen, which had some REALLY amazing sandwiches that were also too huge to entirely finish.

Stepped into a little local bookshop and found this wonderfully bizarre book, a fictional mail-order catalog for imaginary bird pieces.

The return fairy back to Seattle... boy was it windy and cold!

The Savor Seattle tour gave us a discount card to restaurants around the city, so we went back to Steelhead Diner and enjoyed some great seafood, including these AMAZING crab tater tots with horseradish sauce.

Seattle Trip Day Three

It's amazing how much of our vacations center around searching for amazing food, which was definitely the highlight of Day 3 in Seattle. We slept in a bit after the great jazz music Wednesday night and then went in search of delicious brunch, which we found over by the Space Needle. We followed that up with the EMP museum. The afternoon was spent on a Savor Seattle tour, and we wrapped up the day with a delicious dinner.

Andrew's beard looked particularly voluminous with the humidity by the Sound.

Brunch was at Portage Bay, which is a local place that has this majestic thing to see above... it's a fruit and whipped cream bar meant to turn your french toast or pancakes or what have you into the plate of your dreams. That bowl of whipped cream was bigger than my head, and it was DELICIOUS.

Day three and Andrew was already getting sick of photos... oh Andrew, so much more are left to come. He got a terrific breakfast sandwich on some neat sort of bread with eggs and fig jam, the works.

I decked out some incredible french toast.

A slow, delightful brunch.

Walking to the EMP museum! There was a buttload of construction that made our navigating a little difficult, and AppleMaps took some artistic liberties with its route, but we got there!

Lo and behold, they had a Star Wars costume exhibit that was pretty terrific.

Yes, THE Darth Vader Costume! (Or at least, A Darth Vader costume!)

They also had a killer Indie Games exhibit featuring a bunch of indie games you could play. Most of them were hard to understand and difficult to win, but charming and bizarre.

The Music Lab exhibit had some absolutely wonderful instrument interpretives to help you understand the basics of playing the guitar, drums, etc.

They also had rooms where you could privately practice instruments like the keyboard or guitar, and a few other jam session rooms. Andrew and I used a jam session room that recorded the session, but unfortunately I lost the card that allowed us to download it online.

Best part of the day, the Savor Seattle Gourmet Tour! Starting at the Yellow Leaf Cupcake Company.

They also sold adorable macarons.

Starting with a Bacon and Pancakes cupcake.

Also a chocolate and tomato soup cupcake.

Next to Serious Pie at Pike's Place for some terrific pizza.

Then to Cha:n, a Korean restaurant with to-die-for short ribs.

Next stop was a truffle shop, where we were able to test different truffled concoctions.

Potato and leek soup with white truffle oil.

On the right is TruffleBra, the most righteous dude to ever love truffles.

Alaskan Razor Clam Chowder with white truffle oil (from the aforementioned truffle shop) at Steelhead Diner, another Pike's Place local restaurant. Delicious!

A killer margarita from Von's House of 1000 Spirits

Also a delicious salmon cake from Von's

Oooo that margarita was tart!

A delicious end: Pistachio gelato and wild berry sorbetto from Gelatiamo

We didn't get good pictures, but we went to dinner at an Italian restaurant called Cuomo, and then collapsed back at the hotel for a good night's sleep.